HYBRID COMPOSITIONS FOR INTRACELLULAR TARGETING

摘要

Hybrid compounds comprising a first domain and a second domain are provided. The first domain and the second domain are preferably covalently linked, and the first domain comprises a domain which is capable of specific binding to Gb3; and the second domain comprising a moiety selected from the group consisting of drug moiety, a nucleic acid, a probe, a polypeptide, and a hook, with the proviso that the second domain is not a verotoxin or a fragment thereof. Methods of preparing and using the hybrid compounds are also provided. Also provided are nucleic acid molecules which encode hybrid molecule of the invention, recombinant vectors including a nucleic acid molecule of the invention in a form suitable for expression of the fusion protein in a host cell, and host cells including a recombinant vector of the invention.